Highschool of the Dead fans are aghast at the news that the much anticipated restart of the manga is actually just a one-off “special publication,” with the time-frame for actual resumption “undetermined.”

The latest announcement states that the publication date of the next chapter is “undecided” (although this does at least suggest it is on the cards) leaving distressed fans to wonder how many years they will have to wait for regular serialisation to resume and how many more years it will take for enough material to sustain a new season to accumulate.

Most of the blame has been placed on the work having “one of those” mangaka – i.e. one whose fascination with eroge or IdolMaster exceeds their interest in their own creations – leaving the future of the series in continued doubt.

The article is off that the blame is on the mangaka. It's the writer Daisuke Satou that fucked up and kept the series on hiatus not just once but twice. For fuck's sake the manga started 2006 and only 29 chapters were published.

I can understand that he could be more interested in other things than his own creation but he could at least write the scenario and let others do the rest of the work once the scenario is good enough.

This is part of the reason why reality is a shitty game! The Gameplay sucks and the balance is way off, not to mention that the anti-cheat software only works until you accumulate a certain amount of money. xD

It has to be a money issue. I'd like to know how much gets paid Sato for the TERRIFIC work he did in every area: character design, storytelling, top notch artistic quality, accuracy at mechanical, weapon, vehicles and building design, etc. How much doe$ all of that worth? I would love to now how much a CRAP artist like Eiichiro Oda is paid and how much Sato gets paid. That will solve the "mistery" for sure.

now I understand why Berserk went from violence, rape, gore to semi-moe garbage fused with Super Sentai with the berseker armor. I mean, half of the new cast are kids, cute witches and a mermaid that is always flashing her tits. The drastic change in direction not only took me by surprise but it blew my mind too. Berserk has become just too cute for its own good....

I disagree. The last arc was certainly not as good as those before but it was still pretty good. The only problem with it is that it separated itself from the main story when we were all excited about Griffith's army and all. The current arc will surely become on of the best with what's at stake right now.

This is obviously a money issue. I would like to know how much gets paid for the TERRIFIC work he did with the manga at any level: character design, storytelling, top notch artistic quality, accuracy at mechanical, weapon, vehicles and building design, etc. How much doe$ that worth??? I would love to now. I would love to now how much a CRAP artist like Eiichiro Oda is paid and how much Sato gets paid. That will solve the "mistery" for sure.